Hankow, Oct. 16.
Joint telegrams to the League of Nations Assembly and. President Franklin Roosevelt of the USA. were sent yesterday by the Hupeh Provincial Chamber of Commerce and the Hankow Chamber of Commerce, asking that economic sanctions be applied against Japan in Order to preserve world peace. Meanwhile, the Canton-Hankow Railway Workers' Union yesterday despatched identical messages to signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty, requesting that they ce-operate to checkmate Japanese aggression in China.—Central News.
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